Massachusetts News

It's hard to believe it's been 34 years since Massachusetts was hit with the Blizzard of '78, but the stories will withstand the test of time.

The ABC/Washington Post Poll indicated Obama is ahead of Mitt Romney, 51 percent to 45 percent, among registered voters.

South Carolina National Guardsmen, veterans and their families line up to meet employers at a job fair on January 19 in Columbia.

"If it were just one conservative candidate, if Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich could agree somehow -- toss a coin or have a good discussion -- I think it would be a much more interesting race," Giuliani said during an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation." "Well, I don't know.

Attorney General Martha Coakley is heading to Washington to make a legal case for the national health care law that was modeled after Massachusetts' own landmark 2006 health care law.

Mitt Romney, R-Mass., stealing the buzz after a dominant win in the Nevada Republican caucuses.

So many jobs are being added that the unemployment rate has dropped for five straight months.

Watch live as the remaining candidates in the GOP primary react to former Governor Mitt Romney's decisive Nevada caucus win, courtesy of MSNBC: Megan Carpentier is the executive editor of Raw Story.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama look an awful lot a like on paper. Both have passionately fought for abortion rights.

Mitt Romney is favored to come out on top of the results. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Rep.

House lawmakers would consider scaling back mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders in Massachusetts, a key legislator said Friday, opening the door to a potential compromise on a stalled sentencing bill that also eliminates parole for some of the state's most violent repeat offenders.

A Massachusetts-based utility company says it has invested about $23 million of late-stage development capital to own the majority stake in a firm developing a wind power project in Oklahoma.

A confident Mitt Romney is looking past his GOP opponents and Nevada's caucuses the day the state votes.

In a long-awaited surge of hiring, companies added 243,000 jobs in January -- across the economy, up and down the pay scale and far more than just about anyone expected.

Police seized a computer that was actively searching for and downloading child pornography as they executed a search warrant Thursday night at the home of a 28-year-old tennis instructor; police also seized children's clothing, a lifelike baby doll next to his bed and 10 fighting knives, all found in his bedroom.

When Communist forces took over China in 1949, a debate erupted in U.S. foreign policy circles over "Who lost China?" Amid the growing ferment of the Red Scare, blame was soon affixed to "China hands" in the State Department who, either through incompetence or nefarious intent, had neglected to give the anti-Communist forces of Chiang Kai Shek the ... (more)

Federal regulators on Friday said they're seeking offshore wind developers who want to build inside a newly redrawn zone of ocean off Massachusetts, which they pitched as a prime spot for wind farms.

Yesterday a number of people forwarded me this op-ed from Terry Jeffrey of CNS News, claiming that, as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney "decided Catholic hospitals would be required under his interpretation of a new state law to give rape victims a drug that can induce abortions." The claim is salient in part because of the Obama ... (more)

A couple who lives in an $860,000 home in one of the wealthiest communities in Massachusetts has been charged with fraudulently obtaining tens of thousands of dollars in public housing subsidies.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's decisive win over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in Florida returned him to the front-runner's spot in the Republican presidential race.